Coral Paints started the promotion in April 2017, and ended in October, giving away five brand-new cars to different winners after they found the dummy key in the Coralatex 18L pails.

[contextly_sidebar id=”X0edVzNPlMrz9FkteJ9FK0RCwcHEimf9″]Mr. Owusu received the keys to the sixth and last car from the General Manager of Coral Paints Ghana, Yaw Bonnah-Sarpong, at the Coral Colour Centre in Accra on Thursday.

Presenting the keys to the Electrical Engineer, Mr. Bonnah-Sarpong expressed appreciation to all the previous winners, and said Coral Paints will continue to create innovative activities to reward their numerous clients for their support over the years.

Receiving the keys to the brand-new Hyundai Accent car, Mr. Karikari Owusu thanked Coral Paints for making his dream come into reality, after pestering his boss to get him a car.

Narrating how he won the car, he said his boss bought four of the Coralatex 18L pails to repaint his office, but upon reaching the office, his boss asked him to unpack the paints in order for the painters to start work.

According to him, “it was upon seeing the receipts of the paints that I realized Coral Paints was running a promotion, hence I decided to open the paint buckets myself to see if I will find the dummy key.”

After opening the second bucket of paint, Mr. Karikari saw the dummy key and quickly called his boss to inform him about it.

“Fortunately for me, my boss asked me to take it because I found the dummy key,” he noted.

He sent the dummy key to the Coral office where he was asked to present the receipt of purchase, and the dummy key, which he did, and that was confirmed the sixth and last winner of the six cars.

The ‘Paint Your Dream Into Reality’, is the company’s third promotion campaign.

In the first promotion in 1995, the winner received a brand new house.

In the second promotion, Coral Ghana sponsored some customers on an all-expense paid trip to Brazil to watch the national football team, the Black Stars at the FIFA World Cup in 2014.

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The promotion saw over 50,000 entries, but 65 of them made it to the finals. A Junior High School student, Lorena Leber, walked away with the ultimate prize, a brand new Chevrolet Cruise Saloon car.

Other finalists also walked away with consolation prizes worth thousands of Ghana Cedis.

The ‘Cruise down to West Hills Mall’ promotion, also gave customers who shopped to the tune of Ghc200 or more, incredible instant prizes, including thousands high value items like LED TV sets, blenders, microwaves and smart phones.

Board Chairman of the West Hills Mall, Kofi Sekyere, who explained the rationale behind the promotion, said, “We are really happy that shoppers have chosen the West Hills Mall as their shopping destination. This competition has been running for three months. We had close to 50,000 people participating, and out of that 65 got to the final. The draw is essentially to bring customers to shop and introduce the facility to them; and everybody who participated won something.”

Mr. Sekyere added that, the draw was also to increase the foot count and expenditure.

He said the company has run several promotions as it prepared to celebrate three years of its operations in Ghana in October 2017.

“In October this year West Hills Mall will be three years since it opened in Ghana, so about two and half years, in May 2015, we run a scratch and win promotion, and we handed the winner a Kia Rio. In November 2016, ‘Shop N Win’ promotion, we handed over a Chevrolet Sparkle, and this year, Chevrolet Cruise; so it is going to be an annual event” he noted.
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Over 11,000 teachers have been served promotion letters, but government has decided not to pay them their arrears dating back to September 1, 2015.

Speaking to Citi News on Wednesday, the peeved Central Regional Chairman of NAGRAT, Bright Bedzra, indicated that “for years now, these things have started; you have gained promotion and they (the Ghana Education Service) will state that only notionally and substantively.”

“We feel strongly and we shall keep feeling strongly that this is cheating on the teacher. Promotion is a requisite, and it’s a legitimate right every employer in the GES must go through. And the law is that, once you go through, you are promoted, dated the day you are promoted. Why this notional thing? I think government is just buying time to take part of our money, and it’s not coming to us, and we need to bite very well on this.”

Teachers across the country have been complaining about the decision after receiving their promotion letters early May, a copy of which has been seen by Citi News.

The letter, among other information, reads: “This promotion takes effect from 1st September 2015, but you will be placed on your current rank effective 1st April, 2017”.

This arrangement by government is what has angered the teachers, and they are incensed at their union leaders who are said to have been party to the decision by government.

However, Mr. Bright Bedzrah has indicated that, regional, district and local NAGRAT leaders “are yet to receive full briefing” on the situation.

He reminded teachers that “we are a labour union; we will speak for them and whatever will come out of that, they (teachers) will hear.”

He has thus appealed to the teachers affected to exercise restraint.
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Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Friday morning, Nana Agyemang said he believes the current administration of the GFA doesn’t “know how to manage football in this country.”

He believes the football governing body in the country consists of people from “different professional backgrounds” who have come into football because of its “lucrative appeal.”

Nana Agyemang believes that despite the success enjoyed by the team at previous World Cup tournaments, not enough effort has been made to improve grass-root football in the country.

“We’ve not built one stadium, not one training pitch from the  finances accrued from our participation in the previous World Cup tournaments.

“No new infrastructure has been established, there’s been no refurbishment of the old infrastructure.”

He also criticized the GFA’s attitude towards local coaches and the domestic leagues, stating that it is focused only on the senior national team  and has not done much to improve the quality of the game in the country.

He opined that the local league needs about $50 million pumped into it over the next five years in order for it to grow.

On the performance of the Black Stars in Brazil, Nana Agyemang said that the Black Stars did not prepare adequately for the World Cup.

The Black Stars played just two friendly matches against the Netherlands and South Korea before going to Brazil.

He faulted the coach for starting Christian Atsu, Daniel Opare and Jordan Ayew, who had scored a hat-trick against the Koreans in what he called a “non-competitive match”, in Ghana’s opening game at the World Cup against the USA, saying that they were players who were not experienced enough for the berth.

Kwesi Appiah handed all three players World Cup debuts in the 2-1 loss to the USA, leaving Shalke midfielder, Kevin Prince Boateng, on the bench.

He also expressed his displeasure at the coach’s insistence on playing Kwadwo Asamoah at left back stating that Leicester left-back, Jeff Schlupp, should not have been dropped from the squad.

Ghana’s exit from the World Cup was marked by controversy as midfielder Sulley Muntari was expelled from the team for physically assaulting a member of the team’s management committee.

Nana Agyemang stated that the issues which arose before the game against Portugal on Thursday were deep-seated and had only come to the fore.

He believes that the players have lost respect for the management of the team and just expressed what they believed was wrong with the current system.

According to him, the entire Black Stars team needs be dissolved, along with the management of the team, with  “good football people” put in their place, in order for the team to start over and correct the errors that have been made.

He also calls for an increased effort by the authorities to develop the local league, stating that this is the only way forward for the development of the game in the country .

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